The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18
SOUTHERN GLEkNINGS.

of Springfield, KY, died recently at his
residence in Fairmont, Ind, aged ninety
one years.
Mr.. Charles Fordtran, a resident of Aus
tin County, Tex, since the year 1923, now
eighty seven years of age, recently visited
Galveston on o visit of business and pleas.
urt Alderman Furdtran. of Galveston, is
his son.
Lee Hines, a visitor from Winchester,
Tenn, aged about thirty years, committed
suicide at Hot Springs, Ark, few days
ago, by cutting his throat with a pocket
knife. He was in poor health, and no 9th
er cause is known for the act.
At last, use for the harmful and unnec.
essarv fly. A man In Mississippi has
caught and dried a bushel uf them, to use
III feeding fhocking-bir through the
winter.
John Doors, while misbehaving at
picnic in Galloway County, KY, a few
days age, was fatally shot by Frank
Colbie, the manager of the affair. Doors
drew a knife and fatally cut Colbie as he
fell dead at Cobie's feet.
Mr., George +. Dotts, general agent of
the Greeenup Musical Company, Of Louis.
si'lp: Ky, committed suicide at the resi-.
dence of his father-ln-law, tour miles SOUTH
of the city, a few days ago. He had been
in the city three months, and had made a
successful salesman, and had also ingrati-
ated himself into the esteem of many of
the best citizens of the city and vicinity. \
shortage in his accounts precipitated the
deed
The President will visit Memphis and
Nashville.
Most of the Southern iron shipped North
is carried in schooners. Cotton manufact-
urers, it is said, may save money by for
warding their products in the same way.
A negro committed suicide in Atlanta,
Ga, ole day recently because his wife re-
fused to mend his clothes and sew on but :
tons:
The Eagle Flour Mill, at Memphis, Tenh.,
was buried q few days ago. Loss, $4,000;
Insurance Sl5,OGO
A colored man of Hopkinsyiile! Ky,
thought to scare a deaf-mute of this place
by suddenly rushing out ON him as he
passed He was successful, for the mute
was so alarmed that he drew a revolver
and shot five balls into the practical Joker
killing him.
Tennessee is now listening with more OF
less patience to about fifty speeches day
in favor of the Prohibition amendment
A Raleigh On. C.) lady has a cactus that
has bloomed but once and once only, and
that was on the night of the earthquake
last year. 1t is now in bud again, and the
owner is not sure but that the fact portends
another quake.
At citizens meeting held at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, a few nights ago, it was re-
solved to send a big delegation to st. Louis
September 26, to invite the grand encamp-
rnent of the Grand Army Of the Republic
to meet in Chattanooga in 1SSS.
South Carolina crop reports are favora-
BILE. The largest yield of cotton on record
Is lsexpeeted, and the same is true of corn.
There will be full crop of rice and sor-
ghum sugar cane, and potatoes promise
we'll
The first new bale of cotton arrived in
Greenville, Miss, few DAYS ago, raised by
Allen & Hill, Of Lake Washington, and
sold for II ga cents to Weiss & Goldsten.
1t was shipped to H. and c. Newman, of
New Orleans.
Colonel Glenn, author of the bill recently
passed by the Georgia Legislature prohib-
iting mixed schools, makes vigorous de-
fense of the measure In response to resolus
tions condemning 1t recently passed at a
meeting of colored men in Boston.
A disastrous confagration occurred at
Dyersburg, Ky, few days ago, in which
eleven buildings and their contents in the
principal portion of the town were totally
destroyed.
Three unknown tramps robbed AdOlph
Nieneman. Il section hand, and bound him
to the railroad track, near West Point,
XIV, few nights ago. He was rescued
by a companion just before a train came
along.
Al Maynard, an old and well-known
steamboat clerk on the Ohio, Mississippi
and Missouri rivers, dropped dead from
heart disease at Mouse Tail Landing, on
the Tennessee, few days ago. He had
been up the bank with the mail and fell
dead while returning to the boat.
John Clay, the only remaining son of
/ Henry CLAY, died at his farm near Lexing-
| ton, Ky, a few days ago. He left the city in
his usual health, going home, and after
! dining went out to Superintend repairs on a
pump. While giving instruction to the
workmen be fell dead without any pre-.
| moniton.
Old Uncle Peter Washam, one of the old
| est pioneers of the purchase Country" in
Kentucky, died at his home, in the south
| of Marshall County, few nights ago The
deceased lived near Wadesboro, which has
been his home more than fifty years. He
was about ninety years old.
Willis McDearmon, a school teacher near
| Gabattia, jackson County, Tenn, found
| his schooI-house guarded by mob few
| mornings since, who refused him admiS-
| sion on the ground that he was a Prohbi'
| ZIONIST McDearmon opened another
school-hOuse. The anti -Prohibitionists in
| hn 1c
divided according to their parents views
/ on the question.
| The clerks appointed by the Shelby Coun-
| ty (Tenn.) Court to serve at the election
which takes place on the 24t of Septem-
Der have been enjoined by the Chancery
| Court from service. This action has been
brought about by the Prohbitionists, who
claim that they have not been fairly rep
'esented, and also that the County Court
mas not the power to appoint clerks of cleo
| ton.
Frank Steele was arrested recently at
Chattanooga, Tenn, on a charge of shoot
ng James Tracy, at Dayton, Tenn. Tracy
was shot in the chin, and two of his teeth
and a portion of his jaw-bone were driven
nto his throat, immediately under the
base of his tongue. An incision had to be
made in his throat to remove the bones.
Tracy has been unable to speak a word
since he was shot He is lying in a criti
cal condition.
The cotton crop report is favorable.
Thomas Mcmillan, a colOred burglar, at
tempted to enter the residence of Squire
Householder, near Knoxville, Tenn, a few
nights ago, when he was detected by
Householder, who shot him, inficting a
fatal wound Mcmillan who il is he